I have friends who swear they dream in color...
The Rankin Family, a very popular music group in Canada, was to perform a new composition about ready-to-eat breakfast foods. When the program manager asked about the title of the new piece, the group simply responded: "Name? Rankin Cereal Number."
Certainly, you are familiar with the avian scavenger from Warsaw who attempted to make his nation's track and field team. He was a Pole Vulture.
My sister and some of her friends were hosting their families for a graduation lunch. My sister's roommate, knowing her family well, had contributed baked ziti for the meal. Part way through the lunch, as the first pan of ziti was nearly gone, she proclaimed that there was another pan of pasta to be brought out when the first was devoured. I turned to those unfortunate souls near me and calmly stated: "Hmm, a tale of two zitis."
While watching a clumsy duct worker adding access ports to the central air conditioning, I commented, "That looks like a real add-vent-chore."
One of my fellow grad students, also working as a teaching assistant, came into the department lounge in mid-December looking for the exams from section L. After he had asked several others about the exams' location, I realized why he should be having trouble locating them. "After all," I said, "it is the season of 'no L'."
An African wildlife preserve for long-necked mammals: Giraffic Park.
In preparing a dormatory at Carnegie Mellon for the Governor's School students, we had put letters in the windows spelling "WELCOME PGSS 1996". While viewing the work from outside, one person recommended that the letter 'C' be redone because it was in too dark a color. Unable to pass up such a perfect opportunity, I blurted, "So you think we should go from 'C' to shining 'C'?"
My friend and colleague George Christopher discovered the following Fourier Series:
More puns, courtesy of Nabeel Azar.
If you have any comments about my sense of humor...
mail them to neils@andrew.cmu.edu